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📍 Netherlands
Louise Ivan Valencia Payawal was the Growth Lead at the Stacks Foundation, leading community and token growth. They manage more than 100M STX in the treasury to work towards the adoption of the Stacks protocol. He has a Double Masters's Degree in Green IT and got his start as a community member before becoming a team member to Hiro PBC fka Blockstack PBC, mostly known for the first-ever SEC-qualified US Reg A and concurrent Reg S offerings in 2019, which raised 70$M+.
Under Louise's leadership, Stacks grew to more than 100,000 community members spanning 30+ countries, 17K SC deployed on mainnet, 120+ active developers while increasing STX access through various growth efforts. Currently, STX is worth more than 1B$+ in market cap and is the #1 web3 project on Bitcoin.
Passionate about the user-owned internet, Louise co-founded Ryder to build solutions that will enable real-life use cases for digital assets. He believes we can bring everything digital to the physical and capture the value we create in both worlds, making web3 effortlessly disappear in our everyday life.
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📍 Canada
Marvin is an early engineer ****at OpenSea leading its multi-chain expansion (Polygon and Klatyn) and working on its trading engine and wyvern protocol. He was also the technical lead at Stacks focused on protocol design, cryptography, and Defi ecosystem applications. He led Clarity Labs, wrote Clarity Book to accelerate smart contracts on Bitcoin. Currently, there are more than 100K SC deployed on mainnet. He also formulated V1 of what is now sBTC, as part of the "Nakamoto” consensus upgrade for Stacks.
With an academic degree in philosophy from KU Leuven University, Marvin challenges the core concept of identity. He envisions a future where daily micro-crypto interactions redefine value transfer and our connection to the world. In this world, decentralised digital identity becomes the centerpiece, ensuring privacy, security, and self-custody. Recognising this vision, Marvin co-founder Ryder as the natural progression for the web3 space.
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📍 Singapore
Julien grew up in the French countryside and studied electrical engineering in Paris with a specialization in consumer IoT. This foundation guided him across the globe, spending the last 7 years in tech hubs such as Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Singapore.
His career started in 2016 in Hong Kong when he joined Soundbrenner as their first engineer, eventually rising to the role of head of product. His key role led to the global shipment of over 250,000 devices and mobile apps reaching 800,000+ MAU and 7M downloads worldwide, with products generating over US $1.5M in pre-orders on Kickstarter. In 2021, he relocated to Singapore and stepped into the role of Technical Program Manager at Transcelestial, a space company contributing to the development of a worldwide internet.
As an advocate of Web3 and blockchain technology since 2017, Julien has joined Ryder as CPO, convinced that hardware technology can deliver tangible value and impact lives.